Type of Energy
Energy Transformation
Newton's Laws
Vocabulary
Random Physics
100

Energy of Motion

What is Kinetic energy

100

Explain the transformation that takes place when you rub your hands together. (3 steps)

What is chemical (stored in food) to Kinetic  (movement of the hands) to thermal (heat produced from friction)

100

What is Newton's Second law

Force = Mass x Acceleration

100
An energy source that is replinished continually (not an example)
What is renewable resource
100
Energy formed when an atom splits apart or when two atoms join to form one.
What is nuclear energy?
200

The type of Energy that depends on mass and height

What is Gravitational Potential Energy

200

Explain the transformation that takes place when you turn on a crank flashlight. From the battery to the light. 4 steps minimum

What is Kinetic motion of the Crank, to Mechanical gears in the flashlight to Chemical (of the battery) to electrical (flow of electrons) to radiant (of the light) to thermal ( the heat produced by the light)

200

How can you calculate speed? 

Distance traveled / time used. 

200
An energy source that is used up faster that is can be replaced. (not an example)
What is a nonrenewable resource
200
Energy from objects vibrating.
What is Heat or Thermal energy
300

Type of energy that could use chains, cogs, or springs

What is Mechanical Energy

300

Wind turbines convert _________________ energy into electrical energy.

What is mechanical

300

Calculate the mass of an object that has 30 Newtons of force and acceleration of 2 m/s2. 

F = MA --> M = F/A --> 15 kg

300
A device that transforms mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What is a generator
300

Give an example of electrical energy being changed to radiant energy.

What is light

400
Type of energy that depends on the flow of electrons
What is Electrical Energy
400

Explain the transformation of energy that occurs in a coal burning power plant. List the type of enrgy and where it comes from. 4 steps

What is Chemical (coal) to thermal (heat released from breaking the bonds of coal to boil water)to mechanical ( the steam makes) to mechanical (turbine move) to electrical (the turbine is connected to a generator that make a flow of electrons)

400

What is the speed of a rocket that has traveled 200 kilometers in 3 seconds?

67 km/s.

400
State the Law of Conservation of Energy
What is Energy can not be created of destroyed it can only be transformed.
400

This is a type of energy that travels in waves and can travel through empty space.

What is electromagnetic or light energy

500
Type of energy stored in bonds of molecules
What is Chemical Energy
500

Explain the transformation that takes place for you to walk. Begin with the sun. (6 steps)

What is Solar energy (from the sun) to chemical energy (in a plant) to chemical energy (your food) to kinetic energy your walking. 

500

When you drop a tennis ball that weights .2kg and has a force from gravity of 30 Newtons, what is its acceleration? 

a = F/M--> 30/0.2= 150 m/s2

500

Name 6 types of energy

Light, Heat, Chemical, Nuclear, electrical, mechanical, and electromagnetic. 

500
As a roller coaster car goes down a hill, its potential energy ________________ and its kinetic energy _______________.
What is decrease and increase
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